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Blizzard Announced Upcoming Balance and Ladder Changes in Hearthstone

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Blizzard Announced Upcoming Balance and Ladder Changes in Hearthstone Blizzard have ended speculation as to the fate of Small-Time Buccaneer by announcing nerfs that will be active with Update 7.1. The ladder system will also see a small change. The changes were outlined by Blizzard in a Reddit post, and they should shift the metagame significantly. The big, although expected, news is that Small-Time Buccaneer will be nerfed to become a 1/1 rather than a 1/2. This puts it into turn 2 ping range and should stop the card getting out of control. It remains to be seen if it will still be playable considering it will still fetch patches, and still trade one Mana for two Mana in a lot of early game situations. Spirit Claws also sees a change, and although expected by many, was a minor surprise to me as Blizzard generally dislike messing with cards from adventures. The cost of the card has been raised from 1 Mana to 2 Mana. This might seem like a minor change, but the implications are huge. I...

Blue Gems and the upcoming 4 1 0

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Blue Gems and the upcoming 4 1 0 In the JMTC meeting last night, there was a normal question that has came up basically every week for the last month. What do I do with all my Rare Cata Uncuts? Well, I popped out an answer, but it has a few things behind it.... Patch notes are showing that: "Crafted epic armor is having gem sockets added" Now we know that crafted epics are i359s. We know that depending on which,  we will see "un-socketed" gear from the very moment that we can log in on Tuesday . What does that mean for us? Yeah, you get the picture... Get your cut gems ready now. Not on Monday night, not on Tuesday afternoon, get em cut now, and get ready to drop them in the AH asap after the reset. There will be an insane flood to the auction house for gems and gear (for those that dont watch notes) for folks wanting to get their ilvl up for the ZA and ZG randoms. Blizz states that there is a i346 "requirement" to get in.... Speaking of armor, there is al...